The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.

What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.